Showing posts with label Bushnell Trophy Cam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bushnell Trophy Cam. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Illinois Trail Camera Bucks 2014
A look at some of the bucks we got on trail cam on our lease in Illinois during the 2014 season.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Illinois 2010 Muzzleload Report #4-The Last Day!
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Illinois Muzzleload Hunt
Dec. 2nd thru 5th , 2010
Sunday December 5th
Temp: Max Temperature 25 °F, Min Temperature 11 °F
Wind: 9 mph (North West) gust to 23
Snow: .3” overnight
Overcast
pressure: 30.41
The Last Morning!
I decided to go back to the “Kill Zone stand” again this morning in hopes of catching a buck headed back to bed.
Just after shooting light I was sitting down when I glanced over my right shoulder and caught sight of a chase coming down the CPR. I stood as quickly as I could, staying as close to the tree as possible. I started swinging on the doe as she came out from behind my tree. A small buck was chasing her and turned out to be the tight 8. At 80yds out I dropped the hammer on the doe and she went down. It looked like at hit to the ham and when I got down to have a look that is exactly what I found. The “Shockwave” bullet had broken her right femur. It was not text book but I had a deer down.
Right after I shot the doe I realized there was another deer coming behind on the race but he was not a shooter. It was just the half rack and at that point the two bucks split up. About an hour later the tight 8 came back down bottom from the sanctuary with a 4pt following him. They ended up smelling me and went off to the east to the breaks on the hill.
On the way out I was slipping along the edge of the corn field at the golden oaks when I jumped three small antlerless deer. They ran down the edge of the woods and I could see they were angling to enter the field. I just kept walking and readied the rifle. The deer entered the field single file quartering away at about 100yds. I thought I’d just go ahead and dump the middle deer. With all confidence, I swung on the deer and fired. All three deer just kept loping along and exited the other side of the field some 400 yds away. A clean miss, not even a flinch. All I could do was just watch in disbelief. I just can’t seem to get in front of them far enough with the muzzleloader.
I pressed on and headed back to the truck to get the pack so I could retrieve the doe I had killed in the CRP.
I had the doe skinned, quartered and in the pack in about 20 minutes. Rick drove the pickup to the top of the field and cut the pack job down to a manageable 150yds.
Rick had taken a stand at the “Knob” but saw zero deer from the stand. He did jump three on the way out and that wrapped up the mornings hunt.
The Last Stand!
The PM hunt found me back at the kill zone stand hoping the visibility would pay off.
About 4:00 PM. I was glassing across to the neighbors hillside and spotted a group of bucks moving down the hill to come into the field. One was a decent shooter. There was another possible, the half rack and 2 smaller bucks. They moved east down the edge of the field to feed in a cut bean field across the dike. I only had one deer enter our corn field and my muzzleloader hunt was over.
Rick hunted the wood lot and saw 8 does but neglected to shoot one as he just has a difficult time bringing himself to shoot a doe even though it’s necessary. The herd is just to large and we have to take out as many as possibly or the farmer will bring someone in during the summer with permits to do it for us. They all but wiped out the corn last year as it was so wet they could not get it harvested until January.
The big bucks were pretty elusive this year and we had much fewer sightings than last year. We caught a few shooters on trail camera and saw a few nice bucks but all in all it was a tough year. We have tentatively planned a cull trip for the week between Christmas and New Years, depending on the weather but it will be a real long shot to see a shooter that time of year as we will not have a good food source this year.
There’s always next year!
Here's a few more trail camera pictures from this hunt:
Best of hunts,
Larry S.
Illinois Muzzleload Hunt
Dec. 2nd thru 5th , 2010
Sunday December 5th
Temp: Max Temperature 25 °F, Min Temperature 11 °F
Wind: 9 mph (North West) gust to 23
Snow: .3” overnight
Overcast
pressure: 30.41
The Last Morning!
Just after shooting light I was sitting down when I glanced over my right shoulder and caught sight of a chase coming down the CPR. I stood as quickly as I could, staying as close to the tree as possible. I started swinging on the doe as she came out from behind my tree. A small buck was chasing her and turned out to be the tight 8. At 80yds out I dropped the hammer on the doe and she went down. It looked like at hit to the ham and when I got down to have a look that is exactly what I found. The “Shockwave” bullet had broken her right femur. It was not text book but I had a deer down.
Right after I shot the doe I realized there was another deer coming behind on the race but he was not a shooter. It was just the half rack and at that point the two bucks split up. About an hour later the tight 8 came back down bottom from the sanctuary with a 4pt following him. They ended up smelling me and went off to the east to the breaks on the hill.
On the way out I was slipping along the edge of the corn field at the golden oaks when I jumped three small antlerless deer. They ran down the edge of the woods and I could see they were angling to enter the field. I just kept walking and readied the rifle. The deer entered the field single file quartering away at about 100yds. I thought I’d just go ahead and dump the middle deer. With all confidence, I swung on the deer and fired. All three deer just kept loping along and exited the other side of the field some 400 yds away. A clean miss, not even a flinch. All I could do was just watch in disbelief. I just can’t seem to get in front of them far enough with the muzzleloader.
I pressed on and headed back to the truck to get the pack so I could retrieve the doe I had killed in the CRP.
I had the doe skinned, quartered and in the pack in about 20 minutes. Rick drove the pickup to the top of the field and cut the pack job down to a manageable 150yds.
Rick had taken a stand at the “Knob” but saw zero deer from the stand. He did jump three on the way out and that wrapped up the mornings hunt.
The Last Stand!
The PM hunt found me back at the kill zone stand hoping the visibility would pay off.
About 4:00 PM. I was glassing across to the neighbors hillside and spotted a group of bucks moving down the hill to come into the field. One was a decent shooter. There was another possible, the half rack and 2 smaller bucks. They moved east down the edge of the field to feed in a cut bean field across the dike. I only had one deer enter our corn field and my muzzleloader hunt was over.
Rick hunted the wood lot and saw 8 does but neglected to shoot one as he just has a difficult time bringing himself to shoot a doe even though it’s necessary. The herd is just to large and we have to take out as many as possibly or the farmer will bring someone in during the summer with permits to do it for us. They all but wiped out the corn last year as it was so wet they could not get it harvested until January.
The big bucks were pretty elusive this year and we had much fewer sightings than last year. We caught a few shooters on trail camera and saw a few nice bucks but all in all it was a tough year. We have tentatively planned a cull trip for the week between Christmas and New Years, depending on the weather but it will be a real long shot to see a shooter that time of year as we will not have a good food source this year.
There’s always next year!
Here's a few more trail camera pictures from this hunt:
Best of hunts,
Larry S.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
7 Bucks Visit Trail Cam in 4 Days!
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Camera Trap Pictures From 9/24 thru 9/28.I almost hunted tonight even though the feed time is still a little early in the afternoon but it was pretty ugly out and I decided to wait for better weather. That turned out to be a good decision as it started raining before dark.
However, I did stop to put out some feed and pull the card in the trail cam. When I opened the camera it showed 208 pictures in 4 days!! I couldn't wait to get home to see what had visited the stand. It's like opening a Christmas present when you pop the card in the computer.
Well, I misses a great opportunity at a nice racked buck on Sunday morning. I was so tired from staying up posting to the blog Friday night I just could not get out of bed Sunday. That was a big mistake....have a look at pic #26 he was there at 7:25am!
The most interesting thing is that no less than 7 different bucks showed up at the stand in 4 days. I am totally amazed! Without the trail camera I would have no idea that many bucks are using there.
Obviously, all those bucks don't live right there and must have traveled there following other deer trails they cut. This tells me that bucks are actively out looking for does and if this activity holds thru the weekend I should be able to show you a few close up of one or two of them with little x's over their eyes.
Have a look at these. They are not all big but that's coastal Florida hunting.
Here is a good tip, don't set your camera facing the rising or setting sun or you will get pictures like the on e above early and late in the day. That's a pretty nice buck there, wish the exposure was better.
The camera I am running at this stand is a Bushnell Trail Sentry 2.1 mp. They have discontinued this particular model but have higher mp models like their 4.0 mp and 5.0 mp cameras. The 2.1 mp I used has infra red capability but I prefer the flash pictures and it does not seem to bother them at all. I would mention I have gotten pictures on my Bushnell trophy cam, on infra red where the deer was spooking off the camera! They came back and were on the cam again but they definitely were startled by the red glow.
Also note that all of these pictures are resized to a modest 640X480 format which degrades the quality you see just a little.
Good luck,
Larry
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